Under the agreement, Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to disarm southern Lebanon within 60 days. At the end of that period, Israel and Lebanon will negotiate the demarcation of the border between the two countries. Netanyahu has already warned that Israel will retain “freedom of action” if Hezbollah violates the agreement.
The Israeli government this afternoon approved a ceasefire agreement with the Shia group Hezbollah in Lebanon, as confirmed by Lebanese and Israeli media. The Security Cabinet, which brings together key Israeli ministers and security and intelligence leaders, met in Tel Aviv this afternoon to approve the deal. This agreement does not refer to the situation in Gaza, which is why the Israeli Navy continues to attack the Strip relentlessly.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuhas already warned that Israel will retain “freedom of action” if Hezbollah violates the agreement. “The duration of the ceasefire will depend on what happens in Lebanon and we will maintain total freedom of movement,” the president said in an appearance.
The Israeli bombing of Lebanon They have caused more than 3,500 deaths and displaced 1.2 million people in the past year. In Israel, 78 people have been killed (47 of them civilians), while around 60,000 people have been displaced by the firefight with Hezbollah.
These are the key points of the agreement, according to leaks to the Hebrew media:
– Israel and Hezbollah would have agreed to a southern disarmament from Lebanon in a Initial phase of 60 daysin which Israeli forces will withdraw and Hezbollah will withdraw to the northern United States Litani Riverin accordance with the withdrawal of armed personnel from the Blue Line, determined by the UN Security Council Resolution 1701founded after the 2006 war.
– Him Lebanese army will instead send thousands of soldiers to the cleared area. The Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom collect that American troops under the command of the US Central Command (Centcom) will monitor and coordinate relations between the Israeli and Lebanese forces during the first days of the agreement.
– The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, the FINULwill participate in the cleanup of the area. The peacekeepers have been injured in several incidents with Israeli forces, although the last four, Italians, were slightly injured on November 22 by a rocket that Israel attributed to Hezbollah.
– The French troops They will also be involved in this supervisory work.
– The agreement also provides for the creation of an international organization, led by the United States, to monitor compliance with the ceasefire, which will also involve four other countries. Great Britain, Germany, France and an expected fifth Arab country.
– At the end of the 60-day disarmament period, Israel and Lebanon will negotiate the demarcation of their borders between the two countries, as there is currently a dividing line, the Blue Line, established by the UN after the 2006 war.
No hope in Gaza
While in Gaza, Civil Protection teams responsible for rescue ambulances transport some 35 days without service in the northern cities of Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia, where more than 2,300 Palestinians were slaughtered during the 52 days of bombing and military sieges, according to their own records, which continue.
Human rights groups come there an attempt to ‘purify’ the north and force the relocation of the civilian population to prepare to occupy that territory, as the government’s far-right parties openly demand. And a ceasefire in Lebanon could be Netanyahu’s “concession” to keep his troops in the Gaza Strip.
That same Tuesday, at least eleven people were killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Al Hurriya Schoollocated in the southern part of North Gaza City, and which had already been attacked at the end of September. Gazan civil defense teams have described the extraction of new victims from the rubble as complex due to the presence of an unexploded explosive device in the area. On September 21, the same Al Hurriya school was targeted by an Israeli bombardment that killed 44 people, including children, according to local sources.
In addition, the Civil Protection has denounced that all its vehicles cannot operate in the Gaza capital due to Israel’s refusal to allow the entry of fuel, which they describe as “death sentence for the civilians whose homes are being bombed.
The authorities of the Gaza Strip are exalted approximately 44 250 the death toll from the Israeli attacks. The Gaza authorities have stated this repeatedly At least 10,000 people are reported missing. On the other hand, he pointed it out in a second statement 1,410 families have been “completely eliminated” from October 7, 2023.
For example, he emphasized that the Israeli troops have committed themselves 7160 massacres from the start of the offensive, before adding that 3,463 Palestinian families have one survivor after the Israeli attacks.
Source: EITB
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